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Giro d'Italia 2026 Stage 7 Naples-Blockhaus Friday Morning Roll-Out Bulletin — 168-Rider Closing Start List Locks Ninety Minutes From The 10:30 Lungomare Caracciolo Neutralised Roll-Out As Vingegaard's Closing First-Mountain-Summit Outright Contracts To 4/6 On A Closing Pre-Stage Public-Market Move

CYCLING LOOKOUT • 15 MAY 2026

Friday morning Naples — Ninety minutes from the closing 10:30 Naples Lungomare Caracciolo neutralised roll-out, the closing 244-kilometre Stage 7 Naples-to-Blockhaus Campania-to-Abruzzo mountain-summit transition has compressed into the cleanest single-card pre-race first-mountain-summit frame the closing 2026 corsa rosa has produced. The closing start list locks at 168 riders across twenty-three squads on the closing 9:00 local rider-presentation block, with the closing pre-Sicily maglia rosa outright now reading at Vingegaard 4/6, Pellizzari 11/2, Bernal 8/1, Healy 12/1 across the closing major UK and Italian books after a closing single-tick contraction off the Friday pre-dawn 4/5 reference.

Three closing overnight illness-and-DNS withdrawals have been signed off by Race Doctor Salvi at the closing 06:14 Lungomare Caracciolo paddock medical check — Cofidis domestique Renard, Picnic-PostNL sprinter De Pretto and Lotto climbing domestique Van Moer all formally non-starting on the closing twin-Maiella reference. The closing 184-rider eve-of-race startlist has now compressed to 168 across the closing six-stage opening window, lifting the closing pre-Sicily attrition ledger to 8.7% — the closing single highest pre-Sicily withdrawal reading the closing post-2018 corsa rosa has produced.

The closing Visma-Lease a Bike Friday-morning Lungomare paddock briefing locked at 08:14 local with sport-director Heijboer signing off the closing single-card protected-leadership Vingegaard brief and a closing high-altitude domestique reference through Kuss, Affini and Van Belle into the closing Maiella-and-Blockhaus window. The closing combined Visma summit-attack and maglia-rosa-defence probability across the closing 13.6-kilometre 8.4%-average Blockhaus ramp now reads at 72% on the closing public-market frame — the cleanest single-stage pre-race output any Visma Grand Tour brief has produced in the post-2024 reset.

The closing Netcompany-INEOS Grenadiers Friday-morning brief activates the closing Bernal-Arensman twin-card co-leadership reference, with sport-director Cummings signing off the closing pre-Maiella tactical block at 07:48 local. Arensman at +1:38 to Vingegaard and Bernal at +1:21 will both ride protected through the closing Maiella reference; Tarling drops formally into the closing valley-domestique reference after his closing Stage 4 Cozzo Tunno maglia rosa concession with the closing pre-Stage-11 Trapani-Erice individual time-trial brief still locked.

Meteo-Italia has updated the closing summit-zone forecast at 06:42 local to a closing 9°C peak with a closing 78%-humidity ceiling and a closing four-knot south-westerly cross-headwind on the closing upper Blockhaus ramp — a closing two-degree downward revision and a closing two-knot lift on the closing pre-summit wind reading from the Friday pre-dawn brief. The closing Campania corridor peak reads at 21°C with a closing dry-pavement ceiling across the full 244-kilometre transition. The closing rider sign-on opens on the closing 10:14 local Lungomare Caracciolo presentation stage with the closing first rider rolling at 10:30 sharp.

The closing Red Bull-BORA-Hansgrohe pre-stage brief locks Pellizzari onto the closing single-card protected-Italian-podium reference, with sport-director Bramati signing off a closing Maiella-and-Blockhaus attack window onto the closing pre-summit final twelve kilometres. Pellizzari sits at +1:24 to Vingegaard in third overall after a closing five-stage opening signature output that reads as the cleanest pre-first-mountain-summit reference any post-2018 Italian climber has banked on home roads. The closing podium-outright frame contracts to Pellizzari 5/4 with Bernal 6/4 and Healy 3/1 on the closing pre-stage book.

The closing Lidl-Trek Friday-morning brief releases Milan formally onto a closing autobus-and-survive reference into the closing 5h 24m predicted time-cut window. The closing maglia ciclamino ledger reads Milan 188, Magnier 142, Groves 96 ahead of the closing Stage 13 Sicilian-week next-sprint reference. The closing pre-stage betting market closed the closing UK book at 09:14 local with Vingegaard 4/6 from a Friday pre-dawn 4/5 open and the closing combined Visma-INEOS-Red Bull top-three-finish ledger reading at a closing 86% pre-stage probability across the closing 13.6-kilometre Blockhaus reference.

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